According to Beauchamp and Childress, if a person freely authorized death, making an autonomous judgment that cessation of pain and suffering through death constitutes a personal benefit rather than a setback to interests, then active aid-in-dying at the person's request involved neither harming nor wronging.

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Beauchamp and Childress, in their principles of biomedical ethics, argue that respecting autonomy means that if a competent individual makes an informed and voluntary decision that death is preferable to life due to suffering, then assisting in that death does not constitute harm or wrongdoing, as it aligns with the person's own values and interests.

According to Beauchamp and Childress, If a Person Freely Authorized